[LLVMdev] Bitcast to [0 x Type]

[Santosh Nagarakatte]

These are primarily due to deferences to external globals arrays in the
module. These arrays are probably defined elsewhere and linked together
later.

Santosh



> Hi,
>
> I see many statements like the one following, with casts to a 0-sized
> array.
>  %10 = getelementptr inbounds [0 x %struct.Link]* bitcast ([497 x
> %struct.Link]* @link_array to [0 x %struct.Link]*), i64 0, i64 %9 ;
> <%struct.Link*> [#uses=1]
>
> Why does this happen, and which  transform causes this?
>
> Arushi
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